From Harvard to Berkeley, Clinics Train Next-Gen Tech Lawyers

Law students from coast to coast are getting more hands-on training in privacy, as schools use technology clinics for training in an area of the law that’s exploding in popularity at firms and social justice organizations.

The push for clinical education in the space comes as firms struggle to recruit and retain junior talent amid rising workloads, and public interest groups wrestle with new civil liberties issues and inequities stemming from the adoption of facial recognition and other technologies.

Top law schools have had intellectual property clinics since the early 2000s. The scope for many has expanded to include broader ...